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And it still doesn't support anything that isn't a Pixel phone.
I respect GrapheneOS very much. But the fact that you need a Google phone to install a deGoogled Android ROM is one contradiction I just can't get past. I hate Google and I'm never going to buy their hardware and give them money for the privilege of escaping the Google corporate surveillance.
I'm aware of the technical reason why GrapheneOS only supports Pixel phones, but that irony is just too rich for me. So I use CalyxOS on a very much non-Google FairPhone4, and while it's formally slightly less secure than GrapheneOS, at least Google got none of my money and that's a lot more important than security to me.
If you buy second-hand, you give money to Google.
Someone bought the phone the first time and gave their money to Google, and you reimbursed part of that money to that buyer. In the end, Google gets your money. Maybe not full brand-new retail price, but what you paid for your second-hand phone goes indirectly into Google's coffers.
Buying anything Google, second-hand or not, supports Google's business. Given the choice, I refuse to support Google in any way, shape or form.
I'm sorry, what? That does not make sense to me.
Really?
Say I buy a pack of gum at the supermarket. The supermarket got my $2. Then I resell the pack of gum to my neighbor for $1.50. Who do you think has my neighbor's $1.50 in his pocket? Me or the supermarket?
Hint: it's not me. I'm still down $0.50 from the moment before I bought the pack of gum. And even if I had sold it to my neighbor full price because it's new and unopened, it'd like I never bought it in the first place and my neighbor did.
It all depends on how you look at it. You choose to see it as your money saving an object from the landfill, and I choose to follow the trail of my money going all the way to Google's pocket ultimately.
But those two outlooks are not incompatible: they both hold true. You just choose to disregard the latter while I can't get past it.